Nina, the smallest of a group of Russian nesting dolls, is separated from her sisters and swept along on a dangerous journey that eventually brings her back home.
Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes.
Miss Raney is determined to win a ribbon for her biscuits at the county fair until a tornado changes her plans. The recipe for her "Storm-twisted wind-sifted high energy biscuits" is on the back cover.